I feel like dragons in Age of Wonders are their own beast (no pun intended). They appear like animals, yes, but they stand above all other animals as far as humans do. Dragon Lords even have language.

I do understand the logic, though, so the mod is welcome.

I mean tbh, dragons are definitely getting further and further powercrept anyways, so only having slightly high maintenance is fair anyways. Getting animal trait is otherwise helping with parity, as you point out in the description.

It really is just the Prosperity and Calamity dragons that worry me. They ARE already good. Kinda surprising they were not HM in the first place.

It crossed my mind, but after playing it, I find it to be of no balancing concern to be worth the effort, especially when there are many other ways to reduce their upkeep anyways.

Just really trying to go through a series of tomes that makes sense for a Gold Dragon nature/order run... and even with mods, and the expansion of that theme through WW, there STILL is a big gaping hole past Tome of Prosperity, one that would be filled if Vigor and Beasts was useful for Dragons. So I guess time to get this mod!

I do have to ask, however... do you feel it is appropriate that they get their High Maintenance reduced by Animal? And that Prosperity/Calamity are cheaper? Is there any way you can counter that part?

Declined.

is there any chance you consider having it affect the dragonic transformation? Is it because of balancing concerns, i can see that dragonian + empowered beast giving both 20% damage and natural regen would be a bit overtuned. But the base game transformation feels a little underwhelming especially compared to other major transformation. Maybe you could make it that empowered beasts does not affect cultural unit? Thanks for the mods either way!!

Very good！if change dragons type to fighters，i think that will be very nice ！the skill effects of animals are too limited。

I will not do that

This is a really cool mod. But is it possible to add a magic origin type to the dragon? I'm asking because the spirit type is possible with the affinity skill, but the magic origin is not visible. (This article was written using Google Translate.)

Thanks for the quick fix!

Fixed

Ah, right. Forgot Dragon Lord is coded differently. Ill add it to the buglist.

Looks like the Dragon Lord goes not get add the animal tag at the moment
Disabled all other mods, only launched this one and still no tag

Other Dragons, including the ones from the Wildlife mod work fine for the current version

Humans should also have the animal trait. Freaking Monkeys

Just updated it

I'll try making the mod again from scratch and updating this with that one.

Just wanted to confirm. I started a new game on the beta with no mods at all, and there were no tier 5 dragons waiting to be recruited.
closed the game, created a new mod playset that only included this mod and nothing else, started up a new map and now we have tier 5 dragons recruitable.

It's not from my mod. I disabled it, and I'm still getting the bug.

Seems to add Gold Dragon and Obsidian Dragon to Draft recruitment with a Tier 4 townhall. Then, adds 1 of each to the Rally for every vassal you have.

I'm not complaining, and i'm not even sure I want it changed. Pretty awesome.

Just a heads up - Im playing in the beta for ogre update, it seems that this mods adds couple of tier v dragons in rectuitment pool.

@Tormound I have made it compatible. You just need to put this mod before that one. However, for any currently saved game that has a mod that changes the Dragon Ruler prior to doing this won't have the changes of this mod. You'll need to start a new game.

Doesn't seem to work for dragon rulers. Maybe not compatible with mod that lets you choose dragon ruler class?

Working fine with new dlc and patch; new dragons do have animal tag :D

This still working in current update?

Dragons would disagree though, but maybe they are :)

Lord Vectra keeps on being this game's modding community MVP.

LOL

B-but... Dragons are people too!

UPDATE(8/14/24)
Re-coded to work with modded dragons as well

@Balsahar, the modder of that mod told me a way to make them compatible. So it now does work for any modded dragons.

No problem and thank you!

Thanks for respons, by the way great idea with those change

@Balsahar you'll have to ask the modder of that mod to do that. Nothing I can do on my end.

It is possibile to also include dragon's and wyvern's from :" Expanded Wildlife Pack" ?

Ye, I didn't realize they weren't animals until I attempted a Dragon Lord animal build. I didn't notice until I saw that young dragons weren't animals, and I was like "wait a minute..."

Thus this mod has been made.

THANK YOU! Ive been looking for a mod like this for awhile to the point that i was considering making it myself. I always thought the animal synergy build needed a little help, and this is gonna accomplish that.